Gherkin plant size help

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Stratts

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Gherkin plant size help
« on: June 10, 2012, 08:21 »
hi guys how much room do gherkin plants need?

Do they trail like cukes or bush up?

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Re: Gherkin plant size help
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2012, 08:22 »
they trail - or climb with a little encouragement  ;)

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Re: Gherkin plant size help
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2012, 08:26 »
If you train them up a trellis, it makes picking the gherkins much easier :)

You will have to tie them into the trellis at the bottom, with additional support as needed as they grow, but they do quite happily grow UP :)

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Re: Gherkin plant size help
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2012, 08:37 »
I have six small plants at the second true leaf stage. Three are gherkins and three marketmore cucumbers. I forgot to label them and cannot see any differences. Presumably they both have the same requirements and growth habit and I can treat them the same?

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Re: Gherkin plant size help
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2012, 15:18 »
Well one of my 4 cuke plants on my munty frame went and did itself in over the weekend, so could I put a gherkin plant in it's place and trail it up the string??

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Re: Gherkin plant size help
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2012, 21:13 »
Not sure from the post whether these are outdoor or greenhouse grown.  Just that I've never had that much success from training gherkin/cornichon upwards when grown outside so just let them sprawl....

But then I don't water, feed, dig... either, so that might be the reason....  Still get shedloads though...

Tom
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